The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 242, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 13, 1954 Page: 2 of 24
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9 A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
—-A Abilene, Texas, Saturday Morning, Feb. 13, 1954
5 Sentenced to Prison; Couple
Tells Story of Adversities
PRESENTS CITATION — General Tom Green Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy, awarded Col. John
N. Green with the Confederate Military Cross of Honor
Friday. Subbing for Col. Green, who is awaiting assign-
ment in Camp Atterbury, Ind., is his nephew, Dan Green,
733 Ballinger St. Mrs. H. P. McGrady is pinning the medal
on Dan, and in the center is Mrs. Ima Cotton Jennings.
(Staf Photo by Don Hutcheson)
A Negro who burglarized six
Abilene filling stations during Jan-
uary was sentenced to two years
in the state penitentiary by Judge
J. R. Black in 42nd District Court
Friday.
Clifton Lewis Conner, 20, was
indicted in six separate bills. He
admitted guilt in each instance.
Judge Black imposed two years in
each case, a total of 12 years, but
set the terms to run concurrently.
Conner is also known as Larry
Darnell.
Stations burglarised were those
owned by O. B. Simpkins, Reuben
Anton, R. B. Clements, J. O. Bus-
ter, S. P. Wilson and H. T. Flem-
i"The burglaries occurred over a
period from Dec. 15, 1953, to Jan.
2, this year.
T. R. Moulton, 61, brought before
the court on a charge of second-
effense driving while intoxicated,
told Judge Black, “I drank too
much wine.” The Judge sentenced
him to one year in prison, but sus-
pended the sentence. Moulton said
he had worked for the Abilene
State Hospital.
A five-year suspended sentence
was imposed on Estine Conner,
Negro, of 933 Ash St., when he en-
tered a plea of guilty to burglary
on Jan. 10 of property owned by
Abe Cohen at 217 Locust St. Cohen,
a witness, said he had no objection
to the court's suspending the sen-
tence. Conner had previously been
employed by Cohen.
Jack Berkley, 21, and his wife,
Dovie Lee Berkley, 21, of Weath-
erford, Texas, entered pleas of
guilty to forgery and passing on
last Jan. 11 when they gave checks
to Thornton’s and Piggly Wiggly
No. 2 groceries. Two Indictments
were returned against them. Judge
Black sentenced Jack Berkley to
two years in the penitentiary in
each indictment, but made the
terms run at the same time. Like-
wise. be assessed Mrs. Berkley's
punishment at two years in the
penitentiary, but final action in her
case—whether the sentence will be
suspended — rests on whether a
grand jury at Borger or elsewhere
indicted her for forgery and pass-
ing. The pair admitted to the court
they had passed bogus checks at
Borger.
The Berkleys related a story of
adversities. They and Berkley’s
brother, Billy Joe — indicted joint-
ly with them but unavailable for
trial Friday — came to Abilene,
ran out of gasoline and money,
both testified. They were hungry
and decided to make out the phony
checks.
One on First State Bank, dated
Jan. 11, was made to Jack Berk-
ley for $8 and signed “Almer B.
Jackson." They passed the check
to Thornton's. The other for $25 on
the same bank waa made payable
to Billy Joe Berkley and bore the
aame signature as the other check.
It was psssed to Clyde Alexander.
Jack Berkley is one-armed. They
testified they had three children
ranging from five years to 10
months old, now being kept by
Berkley's mother at Weatherford.
Berkley said be had been unable
to find work and she testified they
were hungry and resorted to the
bogus check to get food and money
for gasoline. They are wanted in
other places for check violations,
officers said.
Judge Black granted Jack Berk-
ley credit for the time be had
spent in jail on his state prison
term, dating from Jan. 27.
DOUBLE DUTY — Career diplo-
mat George Wadsworth is hold-
ing down two diplomatic posts
at a time. He is U. S. Ambas-
sador to Saudi Arabia and Min-
ister to Yemen.
Annual Roby High
Band Concert Set
ROBY, Feb. 12 — First annual
concert of the Roby High School
Band will be presented at 3 p. m.
Sunday in the High School aud-
itorium.
Director to Richard W. Thomas,
a graduate of Hardin - Simmons
University.
Fifteen selections will be play-
ed.
4 Abilenians
Inducted Here
Four registrants from the Abi-
lene selective service board and
four from the panel at San Angelo
were inducted into the Army Fri-
day at the Armed Forces Exam-
ining Station here.
Pre-induction mental and physi-
cal examinations were given here
Friday to 1# Abilene registrants
and five San Angelo registrants
to prepare them for future draft
calls. -
Four Brow nwood men were also
inducted into the Army Thursday.
Inductions Friday:
ABILENE BOARD — Guy O.
McFadden, Jack L. Goodman,
Paul W. Harper, and Billy H. Brat-
ton.
SAN ANGELO BOARD — Ver-
non K. Shaw, Harold D. Berry,
Bobby L. Turner, and Gerald D.
Sandusky.
Thursday::
BROWNWOOD BOARD — El-
mer D. Nowlin, Donald X. Setzler,
Harold G. Higginbottom, and Gain-
er L. Boyd.
Pre-inductions Friday:
Jerry N. Williams, Hubert Scott,
and Cecil O. McIntyre.
The inductees were sent to Fort
Bliss at El Paso for further as-
signment
Coleman Musician
Selected to Play
In All-State Band
COLEMAN, Feb. 12 (RNS) —
Mary DuBois, a Coleman high
school senior and veteran band
player, was scheduled to take part
in a mass all-state band concert
to be held Friday evening In Dal-
las.
Miss DuBois was selected for the
aU-Texas music group in two
rounds of competition recently, on
a regional and state level.
The Friday night concert includ-
ed several hundred music and cho-
ral members. It was held in the
City Park Auditorium at Dallas.
This is the second year the Cole-
man girl, who plays clarinet,
has been picked for the all-state
group. She is the daughter of Mr.1
ABILENE BOARD — James D.
Hanson, Bill K. Forbus, Herbert
H. Shahan, George H. Fewell, Wel-
don J. Mayes, Donald W. Hooker,
Joel R. Combs, James E. Wig-
gins, Lawrence E. Bramblett, Lan-
ny D. Curry, Teddy M. Pember-
ton, Robert S. Hardin, Billy J.
Couch, Bethel Llanos, Roland W.
Feemster, Martin A. Mentzer, Har-
old H. Parker, and Paul F. Mc-
Carty, Jr.
SAN ANGELO BOARD — Ro-
bert A. Nickel, Remingio Flores,
and Mrs. Ira C DuBois.
Byron Gray, director of the Cole-
man band, was to attend a meet-
ing of the Texas Music Educators
Association to be held in connec-
tion with the concert.
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TO END TODAY
Baylor Leads in Speech
Tourney Here; ACC Third
Abilenian Fined
$150 for DWI
Neely M. Brunson, of 1366 Pop-
lar St., was assessed a $150 fine
by Judge Reed Ingalsbe in Taylor
County Court Friday when he en-
tered a plea of guilty to a com-
plaint charging him with driving
while intoxicated on Feb. 11.
A 30-day jail sentence imposed
in connection with the fine was
probated.
Baylor University's forensic
team captured four first places in
individual events and piled up 53
potato Friday to take the lead for
the sweepstakes trophy in the 21st
Abilene Christian College Speech
Tournament.
The University of Texas ranks
second with 39% points, and the
host ACC team trails in third place
with 28 points.
Other team standings after the
final tabulation of points on 11 in-
dividual events are as follows:
Texas Western, 21%: University
of Houston, fifth, 12; Texas Tech,
sixth, 15%; Southwest Texas State,
seventh, 10; Panhandle A&M
eighth, 8; University of Arkansas,
ninth, 1%.
One final individual event, men's
extemporaneous speaking. and
rounds 3. 4 and 2 in debate will
take place Saturday to conclude
the tourney. The extemporaneous
apeaktag finals will be held follow-
ing the 10 a.m. chapel devotional
in Sewell Auditorium with the ACC
student body as an audience.
In the finals for men's extempo-
raneous speaking are Rollo Tinkler
of ACC, Bill Kilgarlin of Houston
and Myer Witt of University of
Texas. Kilgarlin was first place
winner of the event in last year’s
tournament.
Baylor took the lead in first
places Friday with four, with ACC
and the University of Texas second
with two each. Houston, Texas
Western, and Southwest Texas
State each had one.......
By events, tournament results
are as follows:
Women's expemporaneous speak-
ing — Johnnie Stone, Baylor, first;
Dana Hieronymus, University Tex-
as, second; and Marlene Phelps,
Panhandle A&M, third.
Women's Bible reading — Syn-
dey Billingsley, Baylor, first; Bar-
bara Smith, Texas Tech, and Caro-
Democrat Wants Membership
As Communist to Be Crime
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12 (—The
top Democrat on the House Un-
American Activities Committee.
Rep. Walter of Pennsylvania, said
today Congress should make Com-
munist party membership a crime
Fountain Clerk Sues
For Compensation
Mrs. Inez Moore, former soda-
water dispenser for Woten Hotel
Drug, Instituted suit Friday for
approximately $5,500 in compen-
sation against The Travelers In-
surance Co., Dallas. In 104th Dis-
trict Court because of injuries al-
legedly suffered while working.
The defendant was insurer of
the Wooten Drug under the Work-
men's Compensation Laws of Tex-
• as. Mrs. Moore, joined in the suit
by her husband, B. P. Moore, said
that on Feb. 2. 1953, her hand was
cut on glass while washing dishes,
and subsequently, soap and disin-
fectant used in the process set up
an infection in her body, perma-
nently disabling her and necessi-
tating medical treatment She re-
jected a Texas Industrial Accident
Board Award.
She and her husband are repre-
sented by the legal firm of Reid
and Reid.
now that FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover says the party has gone
underground.
The only reason this hasn't been
done before, Walter told the
House, is that Hoover has said it
would drive the party under-
ground
"In the past few days," be con-
tinued. “Hoover said the party has
already been driven underground.
Now I think the party ought to be
outlawed."
Walter gave his opinion in re-
sponse to a question by Rep. Dies
(D-Tex), who was chairman of the
Un-American Activities Commit-
tee more than a decade ago and
who Is among the authors of bills
to outlaw communism.
“We have definitely established
the fact that communism is a
criminal conspiracy," Walter said,
“and we ought to be consistent
and outlaw communism.”
Dies told the House that in 1941
his committee submitted to the
then attorney general. Francis Bid-
dle, a list of 1,124 federal workers
about whom "we had reliable evi-
dence of Communist connections.”
He said Biddle told the commit-
tee that the list was submitted to
the FBI. The Texan said the com-
mittee ought to follow through now
and find out how many were tired
land whether any still are on the
I payroll.
line Moore, University of Texas,
tie for second and Patricia McDon-
ald, Texas Western, and Carol
Lynn Lackey, University of Arkan-
sas, tie for third.
Men's Bible reading — Bernie
Burrus, Houston, first; Dick Edgar
ACC, second; and Larry Hargrove,
Baylor, third.
Men's after-dinner speaking —
Larry Hargrove, Baylor, first; Don-
nie Dean, Texas Tech, second; and
Dwight Worley, ACC, third.
Women's after-dinner speaking-
Caroline Moore, University of Tex-
as, first; Marlene Phelps, Pan-
handle A&M, second; and Barbara
Smith, Texas Tech, third.
Men’s oratory — Joe Schubert,
ACC, first; John Paul Wills, Bay-
lor, second; and Ed Mainous, Uni-
versity of Texas, third.
Women's oratory — Camilla Lan-
davazo of Texas Western, first;
Jacqueline Bateman of Texas Tech,
second; and Caroline Moore of the
University of Texas, third.
Women's poetry — Sydney Bil-
lingsley of Baylor, first; Virginia
De Vaney of Texas Western, se-
cond; and Laurie Klindworth of
the University of Texas, third.
Men's poetry — Bill Young, ACC,
first; John Bagaley, Baylor, se-
cond; and Bernice Burrus, Hous-
ton, third.
Women's Radio — Marjorie
Bellke of the University of Texas,
first, and Patricia McDonald, Tex-
as Western, second.
Men's radio — Knox Williams,
Southwest Texas State, first; Ber-
nie Burrus, Houston, second; and
Irven De Vere, University of Tex-
as, third.
Mrs. Carroll Rites
Slated Here Today
Final rites for Mrs. George Y.
Carroll. 74, will be conducted at
3:30 p.m. Saturday in Kiker-War-
ran Chapel with the Rev. D. D.
Denison, pastor of the First Meth-
odist Church, officiating
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cem-
etery.
Mrs. Carroll, a resident of Abi-
lene since 1946, died Thursday eve-
ning at Hendrick Memorial Hospi-
tal.
Pallbearers will be J. H. Bour-
land, Wayne Bowden, Gene Brisen-
dine. Bob Ayers, C. J. Soloman,
and Aubrey Lewis._____________
Hubert Ingrahams
Are Parents of Bay
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Ingraham,
Jr., of Austin, are the parents of
a baby boy born there Wednesday
The youngster has been named
Scott Shane Ingraham.
Ingraham is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Ingraham, Sr., 822
Rivercrest Dr He is a business
student at the University of Texas.
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